Futura is the fully developed prototype of the twentieth century Geometric Sanserif. The form is ancient, Greek capitals being inscribed by the Cretans twenty-five hundred years ago at the time of Pythagoras in the Gortyn Code, by the Imperial Romans, notably in the tomb of the Scipios, by classical revival architects in eighteenth century London, which formed the basis for ’s first sanserif typeface in 1817.

How can the answer be improved? Contrary to popular thinking, the Futura typeface was neither conceived at Germany’s Bauhaus nor decreed as the quintessence of the design school’s teac.

Some aspects of the Geometric sanserif survived in the flood of Gothics that followed, particularly in the work of. Saitek Calibration Tool. In 1927, stimulated by the Bauhaus experiments in geometric form and the typeface, sketched a set of Bauhaus forms; working from these, the professional letter design office at reinvented the sanserif based on strokes of even weight, perfect circles and isosceles triangles and brought the Universal Alphabet and Erbar to their definitive typographic form.

Futura became the most popular sanserif of the middle years of the twentieth century. Ironically, given its generic past, Futura is the only typeface to have been granted registration under copyright as an original work of art, and, further irony, given the key part played by the Bauer letter design office, the full copyright belongs to Renner and his heirs. This decision in a Frankfurt court implies that a further small group of older typefaces may also be covered by copyright in Germany, particularly those designed for. This situation appears to be limited to this small group of faces in this one country, although protection of designers’ rights in newer typefaces is now possible in France and Germany through legislation deriving from the 1973 Vienna Treaty for the protection of typefaces. ’s is a close copy of Futura; ’s is less close. Functional yet friendly, logical yet not overintellectual, German yet anti-Nazi.

With hindsight the choice of Futura as Volkswagen’s ad font since the 1960s looks inevitable.

I hate Microsoft. I will never buy another Microsoft product. I am a consumer advocate.

Microsoft has the absolute worst customer support. I was not able to get support during my warranty period, and simply gave up ever gettting help from MS. I called Barbra Gordan, VP of customer support at MS, and spoke to her and her administrative assistant countless times. What a waste!

Installing Libusb For Pcsx2 more. Normally when you reach that high in corporate structure, you get helped. Top MS techs told me, MS technical support does't answer 'How To' questions. Most of my issues appeared to be bugs. MS top techs were nasty, arrogant, and abusive. I have never encountered a VP of customer service and top echelon tech such utter wastes of human flesh. Bill Gates destroyed the life of Gary Kildall who was a true genius.

I will be posting my experiences with MS and Barbara Gordon all over the Web, and in dozen of newsgroups, and mail lists to whcih I belong. My next computer purchase will be a Mac Pro Laptap. For $100 you get one free year of in person tech support. Microsoft Tech support they cou'd make a profit if they had to help their customers use their products.

Now Bill Gates' charitable foundation is getting money from other philanthropists. None of that money will be used to help hungry destitute, disabled Americans. Anyway, at this point I am just trying to find-out if there is a way to add fonts to MS WORD 2010 at no additional cost. I regretfully own Windows 7 and Office 2010.